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Yeah, I've played against him. He's a really good painter as well. The FLGS I used to play at had a display case that was filled with all kinds of big FW gribblies that he had painted.
Iron Warriors 442nd Grand Battalion: 10k points
2012/10/30 16:00:53
Subject: Re:Are there any known celebrity 40k fans?
DarkCorsair wrote: Brian Walsh, the kicker for the Vikings, plays. There was an article in a sports magazine about him being an avid fan of WoW, as well as a picture of him painting models - the ones on his desk appeared to be Warmachine, however IIRC he was holding a Terminator Librarian. Not sure if he counts as a celebrity or not, but hey, close enough.
I would wait till he tried to help the little french girl at the center objective......then shoot him in the back.
Every Dakkanaught gets a 4+ Pinch of Salt save.
When you suffer a Falling Sky hit, roll a D6 - on a 4+ the hit is ignored as per the Pinch of Salt save. On a 1-3 panic insues - you automatically fail common sense tests for the next 2 weeks and get +7 to your negativity stat. -Praxiss
In all fairness I did search before I made the thread, there was a couple of big threads that used the word celebrity a lot but i didn't see much as far as thread titles with it in it.
It could have been worse, it could have been a finecast thread or a Matt Ward falcon punches Chuck Norris thread
Every Dakkanaught gets a 4+ Pinch of Salt save.
When you suffer a Falling Sky hit, roll a D6 - on a 4+ the hit is ignored as per the Pinch of Salt save. On a 1-3 panic insues - you automatically fail common sense tests for the next 2 weeks and get +7 to your negativity stat. -Praxiss
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
I knew Robin WIlliams and his daughter Zelda (No Joke) are into the Legend of Zelda series, but seeing him as a mini war gamer just made me like him more!!!
2012/10/31 12:02:34
Subject: Re:Are there any known celebrity 40k fans?
It's no secret that I'm into some seriously geeky stuff.
And I'm not one of these guys who would say "Oh dude I totally used to play Dungeons and Dragons and I played a Half-Elf", boldly squeezing yet another color onto the palette of irony, blobbed right next to "Elk-sweatshirt" and "Handlebar mustache".
That gak is weak to me, and earns you no points. If you weren't rolling dice until you were at least 25 years old, LARP'ed by the time you were 15, or know that there was in fact a Riddler "Super Powers" figure (merely a repainted Green Lantern) produced in Argentina only, under the brand name "Super Amigos", naturally, then there comes a point in the conversation where you are simply not following me, a point where no amount of head-nodding can convince me you have any idea what I'm talking about, nor do I make any sense to a normal person.
Like when I talk about buying a reissue of a "Land Of The Giants" trash-can from 1969, to go along with my vintage "Planet Of The Apes" trash-can I got off Ebay, because, obviously, one old science fiction trash-can manufactured for a child isn't enough. I need two.
But I digress, and I'd like to point out that I am trying not to be an elitist about this, I have just grown increasingly frustrated with the recent swing in popularity toward "geek-stuff", simply because these days wearing elf-ears is getting dangerously close to having a Bro-hawk six years ago. But if you got into all this crazy obscure geekery at 36 years old, more power to you. I need people to blow up with my Orks anyway...
Which brings us to-
Warhammer 40K.
I remember playing my first game of Warhammer 40K as a smaller scale version of it called EPIC 40K, with my friend D.J. up in Glen Ridge, NJ where he lived. It was great. It was fun. I knew gak about painting minis (short for miniatures or "little metal men" as my Mom would call them, as in "You've got these fething little metal men all over the house") so my Eldar Reaver Titan didn't look very good, and in fact was painted with Testor's Enamels (the "kiss of death" for mini's, purchased at fine stores such as K-Mart) and looked like I had dipped my Eldar War Host into full bottles of my Mom's nail-polish (they were still sticky as we were playing and I had finished them WEEKS before the battle). D.J's minis always looks great, and he had a full army of Orks.
But I had a great time, despite the fact that I lost.
I lost a lot.
In fact I don't think I ever beat DJ and we played al the time, but winning isn't everything (see VMA's 2005) and the game was more about collecting, painting, converting, and having a blast.
When we upgraded to good old 40K (was it still Rogue Trader at this point?) I changed armies, now opting for the Imperial Guard. I gravitated toward this army because they were literally normal guys, just simple army guys with lousy laser rifles. And they died like normal guys, ALL THE TIME. But I just loved the idea of a scrub with a Lasrifle going up against a Greater Demon Of Nurgle- kind of like The Dirty Dozen vs The Balrog.
Then came a brief interlude with teenage drinking (not recommended), and a short attempt at "being cool".
That didn't last at all so the next army I got into was Orks.
Orks in 40K are great because they are basically like the Orcs we have come to know in fantasy literature, but the are in space. So they're Space Orks...and to me that's pretty fething cool. And they are also great for guys like me that aren't amazing painters, because they basically covered in garbage, shooting garbage at you, and driving around in garbage. And they don't require much strategy, which I am obviously horrible with, you just run in and start shooting.
So I haven't actually played much since I was a kid but I still follow it, occasionally grab some minis from the local Games Workshop and entertain the idea of eventually playing. During the making of Black Parade I actually convinced Ray Toro to get into it. He got Space Wolves, the only kind of Space Marines I actually dig. Oh and I just remembered we actually got Patrick Stump into it...Necrons...that was great...it's lure knew no bounds.
I'm currently into The Death Korps of Krieg, and Vostroyans, both Imperial Guard armies, and as always Orks (especially those new plastic kits and the awesome Forgeworld stuff), though I occasionally miss the Eldar, and think about starting up some of those as well. I also briefly flirted with Tau, because Fire Warriors are some of my favorite models.
So that's some gak I love.
G
***forgot to mention, me and Mikey played some wicked f-ing games of Necromunda***
url appears to be wrong there...
google chemical romance and warhammer et voila.
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The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
2012/10/31 19:43:16
Subject: Re:Are there any known celebrity 40k fans?
It's no secret that I'm into some seriously geeky stuff.
And I'm not one of these guys who would say "Oh dude I totally used to play Dungeons and Dragons and I played a Half-Elf", boldly squeezing yet another color onto the palette of irony, blobbed right next to "Elk-sweatshirt" and "Handlebar mustache".
That gak is weak to me, and earns you no points. If you weren't rolling dice until you were at least 25 years old, LARP'ed by the time you were 15, or know that there was in fact a Riddler "Super Powers" figure (merely a repainted Green Lantern) produced in Argentina only, under the brand name "Super Amigos", naturally, then there comes a point in the conversation where you are simply not following me, a point where no amount of head-nodding can convince me you have any idea what I'm talking about, nor do I make any sense to a normal person.
Like when I talk about buying a reissue of a "Land Of The Giants" trash-can from 1969, to go along with my vintage "Planet Of The Apes" trash-can I got off Ebay, because, obviously, one old science fiction trash-can manufactured for a child isn't enough. I need two.
But I digress, and I'd like to point out that I am trying not to be an elitist about this, I have just grown increasingly frustrated with the recent swing in popularity toward "geek-stuff", simply because these days wearing elf-ears is getting dangerously close to having a Bro-hawk six years ago. But if you got into all this crazy obscure geekery at 36 years old, more power to you. I need people to blow up with my Orks anyway...
Which brings us to-
Warhammer 40K.
I remember playing my first game of Warhammer 40K as a smaller scale version of it called EPIC 40K, with my friend D.J. up in Glen Ridge, NJ where he lived. It was great. It was fun. I knew gak about painting minis (short for miniatures or "little metal men" as my Mom would call them, as in "You've got these fething little metal men all over the house") so my Eldar Reaver Titan didn't look very good, and in fact was painted with Testor's Enamels (the "kiss of death" for mini's, purchased at fine stores such as K-Mart) and looked like I had dipped my Eldar War Host into full bottles of my Mom's nail-polish (they were still sticky as we were playing and I had finished them WEEKS before the battle). D.J's minis always looks great, and he had a full army of Orks.
But I had a great time, despite the fact that I lost.
I lost a lot.
In fact I don't think I ever beat DJ and we played al the time, but winning isn't everything (see VMA's 2005) and the game was more about collecting, painting, converting, and having a blast.
When we upgraded to good old 40K (was it still Rogue Trader at this point?) I changed armies, now opting for the Imperial Guard. I gravitated toward this army because they were literally normal guys, just simple army guys with lousy laser rifles. And they died like normal guys, ALL THE TIME. But I just loved the idea of a scrub with a Lasrifle going up against a Greater Demon Of Nurgle- kind of like The Dirty Dozen vs The Balrog.
Then came a brief interlude with teenage drinking (not recommended), and a short attempt at "being cool".
That didn't last at all so the next army I got into was Orks.
Orks in 40K are great because they are basically like the Orcs we have come to know in fantasy literature, but the are in space. So they're Space Orks...and to me that's pretty fething cool. And they are also great for guys like me that aren't amazing painters, because they basically covered in garbage, shooting garbage at you, and driving around in garbage. And they don't require much strategy, which I am obviously horrible with, you just run in and start shooting.
So I haven't actually played much since I was a kid but I still follow it, occasionally grab some minis from the local Games Workshop and entertain the idea of eventually playing. During the making of Black Parade I actually convinced Ray Toro to get into it. He got Space Wolves, the only kind of Space Marines I actually dig. Oh and I just remembered we actually got Patrick Stump into it...Necrons...that was great...it's lure knew no bounds.
I'm currently into The Death Korps of Krieg, and Vostroyans, both Imperial Guard armies, and as always Orks (especially those new plastic kits and the awesome Forgeworld stuff), though I occasionally miss the Eldar, and think about starting up some of those as well. I also briefly flirted with Tau, because Fire Warriors are some of my favorite models.
So that's some gak I love.
G
***forgot to mention, me and Mikey played some wicked f-ing games of Necromunda***
url appears to be wrong there...
google chemical romance and warhammer et voila.
I assumed for most of these people it's just like "Yeah I painted a few models once maybe", but this guy seems really into it. This is pretty awesome, makes celebrities seem a lot more like average people.
JSF wrote:... this is really quite an audacious move by GW, throwing out any pretext that this is a game and that its customers exist to do anything other than buy their overpriced products for the sake of it. The naked arrogance, greed and contempt for their audience is shocking.
I could see him painting minis and talking to himself in each characters voice.
Every Dakkanaught gets a 4+ Pinch of Salt save.
When you suffer a Falling Sky hit, roll a D6 - on a 4+ the hit is ignored as per the Pinch of Salt save. On a 1-3 panic insues - you automatically fail common sense tests for the next 2 weeks and get +7 to your negativity stat. -Praxiss
I came to this thread specifically to post this... darn you! However, it would also seem that Billy Amend (the man behind the Foxtrot comic strip) is also at least very aware of 40k. He's mentioned Bloodletters and the Assault on Black Reach in strips.
Vin Diesel plays Black Templar, there is a funny story to do with him in the NY store from what I've been told by a friend that used to work at GW, can't say anything on the validity of the story, but I have heard from multiple sources VD plays the BT.
CrashCanuck wrote: Vin Diesel plays Black Templar, there is a funny story to do with him in the NY store from what I've been told by a friend that used to work at GW, can't say anything on the validity of the story, but I have heard from multiple sources VD plays the BT.
Apparently he was banned for saying their store campaign sucked? At least, that's what some of the Canuck managers were saying after they got back from the first Vegas meeting.
Mind you, after having run a number of store campaigns and being forced to tailor them for the kids, I can agree with his sentiments... We tried to run a couple of narrative campaigns, it turned into nothing but a giant disaster because the kids didn't give a crap about anything other than killing stuff. (heck, getting them to play something other than 'kill the other guy' was considered a victory for the staff!)
Then we tried to run a bracket campaign, with a division for the kids to just go and blow eachother up, and a seperate narrative division for more veteran players who wanted the storyline aspect... God damn soccer moms screamed we were being prejeduced against the kids and so we had to abandon that format and let the kids yet again ruin the narrative and drive all our veteran customers away.
Not saying I'm against kids in the hobby or anything. Just that some events - even GW store events should always have divisions to allow everyone to play the game/campaign they want to play.
Looking for the Empire spearmen from the Warhammer sixth edition box set (empire vs orcs) Must be unpainted and in good condition. Also looking for MIB Empire State Troops boxes.
Looking for Battle for Macragge and Black Reach Tactical squads, unpainted and unassembled.
Fafnir13 wrote: A rather surreal moment reading a family circus mentioning 40K. If I saw it only on the Internet, I'd swear it had to be someone recaptioning it.
I remember reading it around Halloween, for some reason it made me real happy to read it.
It's no secret that I'm into some seriously geeky stuff.
And I'm not one of these guys who would say "Oh dude I totally used to play Dungeons and Dragons and I played a Half-Elf", boldly squeezing yet another color onto the palette of irony, blobbed right next to "Elk-sweatshirt" and "Handlebar mustache".
That gak is weak to me, and earns you no points. If you weren't rolling dice until you were at least 25 years old, LARP'ed by the time you were 15, or know that there was in fact a Riddler "Super Powers" figure (merely a repainted Green Lantern) produced in Argentina only, under the brand name "Super Amigos", naturally, then there comes a point in the conversation where you are simply not following me, a point where no amount of head-nodding can convince me you have any idea what I'm talking about, nor do I make any sense to a normal person.
Like when I talk about buying a reissue of a "Land Of The Giants" trash-can from 1969, to go along with my vintage "Planet Of The Apes" trash-can I got off Ebay, because, obviously, one old science fiction trash-can manufactured for a child isn't enough. I need two.
But I digress, and I'd like to point out that I am trying not to be an elitist about this, I have just grown increasingly frustrated with the recent swing in popularity toward "geek-stuff", simply because these days wearing elf-ears is getting dangerously close to having a Bro-hawk six years ago. But if you got into all this crazy obscure geekery at 36 years old, more power to you. I need people to blow up with my Orks anyway...
Which brings us to-
Warhammer 40K.
I remember playing my first game of Warhammer 40K as a smaller scale version of it called EPIC 40K, with my friend D.J. up in Glen Ridge, NJ where he lived. It was great. It was fun. I knew gak about painting minis (short for miniatures or "little metal men" as my Mom would call them, as in "You've got these fething little metal men all over the house") so my Eldar Reaver Titan didn't look very good, and in fact was painted with Testor's Enamels (the "kiss of death" for mini's, purchased at fine stores such as K-Mart) and looked like I had dipped my Eldar War Host into full bottles of my Mom's nail-polish (they were still sticky as we were playing and I had finished them WEEKS before the battle). D.J's minis always looks great, and he had a full army of Orks.
But I had a great time, despite the fact that I lost.
I lost a lot.
In fact I don't think I ever beat DJ and we played al the time, but winning isn't everything (see VMA's 2005) and the game was more about collecting, painting, converting, and having a blast.
When we upgraded to good old 40K (was it still Rogue Trader at this point?) I changed armies, now opting for the Imperial Guard. I gravitated toward this army because they were literally normal guys, just simple army guys with lousy laser rifles. And they died like normal guys, ALL THE TIME. But I just loved the idea of a scrub with a Lasrifle going up against a Greater Demon Of Nurgle- kind of like The Dirty Dozen vs The Balrog.
Then came a brief interlude with teenage drinking (not recommended), and a short attempt at "being cool".
That didn't last at all so the next army I got into was Orks.
Orks in 40K are great because they are basically like the Orcs we have come to know in fantasy literature, but the are in space. So they're Space Orks...and to me that's pretty fething cool. And they are also great for guys like me that aren't amazing painters, because they basically covered in garbage, shooting garbage at you, and driving around in garbage. And they don't require much strategy, which I am obviously horrible with, you just run in and start shooting.
So I haven't actually played much since I was a kid but I still follow it, occasionally grab some minis from the local Games Workshop and entertain the idea of eventually playing. During the making of Black Parade I actually convinced Ray Toro to get into it. He got Space Wolves, the only kind of Space Marines I actually dig. Oh and I just remembered we actually got Patrick Stump into it...Necrons...that was great...it's lure knew no bounds.
I'm currently into The Death Korps of Krieg, and Vostroyans, both Imperial Guard armies, and as always Orks (especially those new plastic kits and the awesome Forgeworld stuff), though I occasionally miss the Eldar, and think about starting up some of those as well. I also briefly flirted with Tau, because Fire Warriors are some of my favorite models.
So that's some gak I love.
G
***forgot to mention, me and Mikey played some wicked f-ing games of Necromunda***
url appears to be wrong there...
google chemical romance and warhammer et voila.
Maybe that's why many of the songs in The Black Parade were so focused on death. I mean, Orks and the ever expendable IG? Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if he played Khorne or Nurgle...
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2013/01/10 16:46:11
Subject: Re:Are there any known celebrity 40k fans?
2000 if sufficiently arsed
1850
1000ish 
5000pts 
6000pts 
3000pts
